Exhibition

"Fragmented narratives, virtual memories"

8th January to 25th February 2018 / Kutxa Kultur Plaza

We browse Instagram every day. With just one finger we move photographs, one after another. With two, we enlarge them. We also look at videos lasting no more than 60 seconds. Like this we plunge into universes created by others out of their own lives. They are new narrative universes, new stories to recreate, new stories that are very short and fragmented. In their own reality, all of them are launched into the world after being retouched: whether this involves the scenarios shown, the light in which they were taken, the filters or the soft-focus halos used.

Two questions are raised here:

The first, as constant creators of other lives different from our own. Are we what our pictures show? So do we generate a new, parallel life? Which of the two lives is more real? Which will end up being fixed in our memory?

And the second as viewers of these images. Are we looking at a new narrative genre? What happens when this content is accompanied by music? Or when we ourselves create this music, even if it is just a simple tune in our heads? Are we constructing our own - musical - story on a daily basis, from representations of other people's lives?

Fragmented Narratives, Virtual Memories is a collective exhibition of the work of different women artists who take photographs of their experiences to post on digital platforms.

The exhibition sets out to represent precisely this new scenario that is opening up, with a special focus on women as generators thereof and the female body as occupying different spaces.

Fragmented Narratives, Virtual Memories puts together their own and other pictures to evoke different worlds in which the protagonists set out to create their identity and at the same time transform reality and be other women. In short, living other lives and - why not? - almost unconsciously generating a narrative and creating a false musical documentary - or not: Who's that girl? Will she be or won't she?